Editing 2967: Matter

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| number    = 2967
| date      = August 2, 2024
| title     = Matter
| image     = matter_2x.png
| imagesize = 234x341px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = He was the first person to land a 900, which is especially impressive because pulling off a half-integer spin requires obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics.
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==Explanation==
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In {{w|skateboarding}}, the term 'goofy' means to use the {{w|Footedness#Goofy_stance|opposite stance}} of the typical 'right-footed' one. This comic takes this as an apparent analogy of {{w|antimatter}} in elementary physics, which exhibits the opposite charge to normal matter will mutually destroy 'normal' matter (releasing energy relative to the original mass). This appears to be the kind of explanation that one gets when {{w|Tony Hawk}}, an ex-professional skateboarder of great reknown.

The title text talks of a {{w|900 (skateboarding)|skateboarding trick}} which involves two and a half rotations. {{w|Spin (physics)|'Spin'}} is a quality of subatomic particles, named for the concept of {{w|angular momentum}} as it applies to elementary and quantum physics, and the understanding of {{w|Fermi–Dirac statistics}} requires that the particles involved exhibit spin numbers that all have a half-spin on top of any given whole number, much as with the 2½-revolutions (albeit at a vastly different scale and only loosely considered even the same) of the trick that Tony Hawk could have performed.

==Transcript==
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:[Tony Hawk (drawn with short hair) gesturing at a narrow whiteboard on which illegible things are marked, what may be a Quantum Electrodynamics diagram with one leg going into the black hole, and at the bottom, a 2x3 table of values..]
:Tony Hawk: In the standard model, regular matter will annihilate if it comes in contact with oppositely-charged ''goofy'' matter.

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Tony Hawk becomes a physics professor

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